Verdrager worked at the firm from 2004 to 2008. The conduct at issue involved a search by Verdrager of Mintz Levin’s computer system for documents to support her lawsuit.

One of those documents, a voicemail from the firm’s diversity chair to Chairman R. Robert Popeo, has been deemed not privileged by a discovery master hearing the case.

“The respondent accesses copied materials that were freely available to her as an employee, a step any experienced plaintiff’s lawyer would have advised a client to take,” the BBO wrote. “In the absence of evidence suggesting that secrets and confidences of the firm’s clients were violated, we cannot accept the hearing committee’s contention that ‘no responsible attorney would have considered this conduct appropriate.’”

Verdrager, who currently practices in Bedford, N.H., could not be reached for comment prior to deadline.

In December, the employment attorney told Lawyers Weekly that she understands why people are “uncomfortable” with what she did.

“People may not like it, but the bottom line is I only looked at things Mintz Levin knew that no one had an expectation of privacy in,” she said. “The firm beats its lawyers over the head with the message that nothing on that computer is private. But because I found something that proves bad behavior on their part, they seem to be saying that I shouldn’t have been able to look at it.”

A Mintz spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment. Verdrager’s civil suit is pending in Suffolk Superior Court.